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Of course, I have yet to go through all the combinations for multiplication of the numbers or the differences of the without decimals, using the colon as the decimal, and converting the minutes into factions and then using/not using a decimal.

I honestly think the hardest thing about this riddle is its ambiguous nature, which thereby generates countless permutations using the same interpretation. I think I'm going to start a notebook with all possible answers, since I'm starting to get lost and forget which ones I already tried by hasty work done on scratch paper

Answer is incorrect, sorry. You should look back at all the things people found already and on the hints. There are a lot of things you miss in your interpretation, like for example did you notice the picture and what it was for?

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Originally Posted by Rennir

Actually, it was wrong

Anyways...since NW has gone AWOL again (), time to try my luck with the first riddle.

He’s only been gone 10 days, he’ll be back soon. I haven’t been keeping time, but the answering period for the riddle is over, correct?

@Felix: It was for the anomalies, no? I got the minutes by adding up the king, number killed and number left FYI. Or I was the only one who thought kingdom v=6 because of the apple>radish in the pic but since everyone used 5 anyways, I decided to just go with that . And yeah it's over

I’m starting to think the real problem here is that when a riddle goes on for this long people just forget what was already figured out, or get something that’s on the right track but because it’s not exactly it just go way off in their next guess. I guess it’s a pretty big riddle so to make things more fun I’ll start telling you guys if you’re getting warm or cold; instead of just the boring “incorrect”. To start with, this answer http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...&postcount=244 was warm. On the other hand, @Rennir’s answer above was pretty cold.

Good luck.

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Originally Posted by brocko

oh wut, there's an answering period? lol

I was under the impression each riddle was game till either it gets solved or the contest is over.

Every riddle (except the first) has a 2 week answering period.
The first lasts until all other riddles are answered or expire.

I was under the impression each riddle was game till either it gets solved or the contest is over.

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Originally Posted by Rennir

... And yeah it's over

If the author (Rennir) is happy to let it continue until it is solved or all of the others are solved I don't mind. Keeping it going only disadvantages Rennir. Either way the next riddle will go up sometime today.-- Best laid plans...

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Originally Posted by felix

Every riddle (except the first) has a 2 week answering period.
The first lasts until all other riddles are answered or expire.

The original intention was was two weeks for each of them, but your riddle was quite hard until you understand the key to it and as I say it only disadvantages the author to keep it going. Plus you're not interested in winning anyway In theory all those points could apply to any of the riddles if the author is happy with that.

Might need to start using more riddles from the already used authors pool, after this next one, as I seem to have miscounted (or counted too many of felix's many submissions ) and over estimated how many I'd have.

No reason there can't be another hint (if Rennir is happy for it to continue), though I didn't because Rennir has been monitoring and guiding the thinking in this thread a little already. However, I'll have to think about what without giving it away too quickly!

Well my thinking was that Arabs were famous for numbers, and I know that Arabs were one of the first cultures to actually use a zero number. Anyways, I think that the amalgam might be a mix of numbers and letters for a word. Like l33t.

Well I am okay with it either way. Obviously, I want to win and I'd rather not be at a disadvantage. However, if people think that NW's hint and what I revealed were not enough as hints, then I think it's fair to agree on another deadline (not til the end of the contest though, because mine is nowhere near as hard as felix's ).

Ok just an update. Nightwish and I decided to extend the riddle an extra week from the original deadline, which means that everyone has until Thursday (3 more days) to guess. As for the hint, NW and I are still discussing an apt hint that doesn't completely give away the entire riddle but will point everyone in the right direction. However, since there's 3 days left, I thought I'd first post one that in my mind, is apt. If NW doesn't seem to think so, then another hint can be posted. Hint: One could say that the origin is Roman as well.

Anyways, since the 3 days are up, and no one has even made an attempt...here's the solution:

Spoiler for Solution:

I am bound by an "eccentric" beginning and an even end. <--Eccentric is meant to be a synonym for odd. One should have made the connection based upon the word "even" and the fact that the riddle is about numbers. These are physical descriptions, so the beginning is an odd number while the end is an even number.

Within, I am infinite and finite at the same time. <--Refers to irrational numbers (coughfelixcough ). This one, in particular, is e. It's infinite because it has an infinite number of digits but finite at the same time because it can be represented by the letter "e". Between the odd and even numbers is "e".

Wherever I go I cause distress. <--Distress is a synonym for vex, which has an e in the middle (should be pretty obvious who the person is now, right?)

My origin? An amalgam of Latin and Arabic. <--Vex has its origins in Latin and Arabic refers to the duality that the name Vexx possesses. As to the last hint, V is the roman numeral for 5, which is odd, and XX=20, which is even.

Well yes, you're right about vex. But the way that I was interpreting the word "Vexx" included a numerical interpretation of all of the letters, along with the normal interpretation that the letters were just letters. So that's why I put Arabic and duality: because you can think of vexx in two ways in the riddle.